we were really busy! The girls helped Rob with our garden. Grace wanted to plant Watermelon, Cantaloupe and pumpkin! We are a month or two too late but we'll see how it goes. :)
I made some banana cream pie cupcakes using
this recipe. Really delicious!!
Then we were on our way to Walmart to experience the craziest thing I've ever experienced in my life!! We got some groceries, went out to the car and Rob started putting all the bags in the trunk. My purse was in the front of the cart where the kids would sit. I noticed it was there before Rob put the cart away but I thought he would see it and he didn't. After we drove 15 minutes away from Walmart I asked Rob if he grabbed my purse and he said no. I looked in the back of our car and it wasn't there! I was seriously panicking the whole way back, saying prayers, Rob was driving like a maniac to get back to Walmart!
We finally arrive and Rob parks the car in the middle of the aisle, runs to the other aisle where he had put the cart away and comes back with my purse! The crazy thing is on the way over to the cart, through the back of a guys window, Rob saw a man put my purse in the back of his seat. Rob ran over and started pounding on his window, the guy opened the door and Rob said, "No way that's my wife's purse" and reached behind the guy and grabbed my purse from his back seat! Are you kidding me????????? What a crazy experience!
I really do believe in the power of prayer and believe with all of my heart that we had help getting my purse back. If we got there literally 1 second later Rob wouldn't have seen the guy put my purse in his back seat.
I guess the moral of the story is, Prayer works, you can't trust anyone and always keep your purse with you!! :)
Olivia got to take Bono the monkey home from school today and she was soooo excited about it. Bono got to go to Soccer with her and play on the monkey bars and then go to bed with her! We just hope he doesn't come back anytime soon since he's been to 15 other houses and really smells bad!
I've been busy making some more hair clips...
and I had to make 8 of these sacks filled with dried corn for a corn hole game that Rob is making. Pictures of that will come later, can't wait until it's done!
Taylor, Grace and Olivia all started soccer this last Saturday and we had some fun visitors also!
Taylor loved that Grandma and Grandpa Judd could come to her game!
While they were here, Grandma made skirts for the girls. (in less than 24 hours too, she's amazing!!)
We tye-dyed some shirts...
made homemade granola bars, yum!
Grandpa Judd helped Rob plant an avocado tree and a fruit tree..
and they built a wall in our back yard so the sprinkler system would work better...
Rob and his dad also sanded our entire piano so that grandma Judd and I could paint it white. It took them over 5 hours to sand it and it took us all together over 10 hours to complete it!
It was so much work but so worth it! I'm so grateful to finally have a working piano in our house. Now I just need my girls (and I) to take lessons!!
I can BARELY handle that all of the girls are in school right now. It's only 3 hours that I'm by myself but it makes me really sad that they are soo grown up. I seriously try not to cry every time I drop them off, it's soo pathetic. I love them soo very much and as hard as it is raising 3 girls I might have an even harder time having them leave me every day!
playing dressup...
feeding goats, ostrichs, and...
lorikeets. (never heard of them but the kids loved it!)
They played in the back with sprinklers...
oh and we fed some deer too! (sorry a little out of order) We also went swimming and got a babysitter so that Rob and I could go out with Scott and Cheryl. We had a great time and can't wait until next year! :)
